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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51323949 Title: The myths we live by Author: Mary Midgley Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003. ISBN/ISSN: 0415309069 9780415309066 9780203480922 0203480929 OCLC:51323949

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The myths we live by

Author:	Mary Midgley
Publisher:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	In this work, Mary Midgley argues that myth, far from being in opposition to, is actually part and parcel of science. According to Midgley, myths are neither lies nor stories, but a network of powerful symbols that suggest particular ways of interpreting the world.
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Document Type:	Book
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ISBN:	0415309069 9780415309066 9780203480922 0203480929
OCLC Number:	51323949
Description:	x, 192 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents:	How myths work -- Our place in the world -- Progress, science and modernity -- Thought has many forms -- The aims of reduction -- Dualistic dilemmas -- Motives, materialism and megalomania -- What is action -- Tidying the inner scene : why memes? -- The sleep of reason produces monsters -- Getting rid of the ego -- Cultural evolution? -- Selecting the selectors -- Is reason sex-linked? -- The journey from freedom to desolation -- Biotechnology and the yuk factor -- The new alchemy -- The supernatural engineer -- Heaven and earth, an awkward history -- Science looks both ways -- Are you an animal? -- Problems about parsimony -- Denying animal consciousness -- Beasts versus the biosphere? -- Some practical dilemmas -- Problems of living with otherness -- Changing ideas of wildness.
Responsibility:	Mary Midgley.
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Mary Midgley argues in her powerful new book that far from being the opposite of science, myth is a central part of it. A tour de force of clear thinking on why we are more than the sum of our Read more...

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'The most cool, coherent and sane critic of contemporary superstition we have.' - The Sunday Times; 'Midgley's books over the past thirty years have made a signal contribution to ending 'the contest Read more...

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